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Labourer goes to prison for stealing crate of eggs

A Karmo Grade I Area Court, Abuja, on Thursday sentenced a labourer, Abdulahi Danjuma to two months in prison for stealing one roll of sachet cowbell powdered milk, a carton of Vaseline blueseal and one crate of eggs.

The judge, Alhaji Inuwa Maiwada, found Danjuma of no fixed address guilty of house breaking and theft.

Maiwada, however gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N5,000 while warning him to desist from committing crime.

The judge ordered that the milk be returned to the owner.

The prosecutor, Mrs Ukagha Ijeoma, told the court that two traders Isreal Abraham and Mohammed Sani all of NNPC Quarters Life Camp, Abuja, reported the matter at the Life Camp Police Station on Dec. 3.